I've now fitted the solebars and added some hinge detail and body support brackets either side of the doors.

The support brackets were made from .015" x .080" styrene strip, radiused on one corner.

The strip under the side door is a length of .030" square styrene (as per Geoff Kent's book) and the hinges themselves are cut from .010" x .080" styrene for the baseplate and .030" rod, 1mm long, with a flat filed on the back for the hinge itself. They're not particularly neat but they are a lot better than Airfix's original oversized hinge. A pic;

And next to my last remaining OO Dapol mineral (soon to be sold when I find the missing coupling) for comparison;

The w-irons were filed off the solebars and the solebars glued in place, Unfortunately where I've had to bend the etched w-irons inwards there is a gap between the axleboxes and the w-irons;

Hopefully that won't be too noticable when the thing is painted! Note the white styrene glued to the rear of the axleboxes where I got a bit carried away with the file... (shouldn't show you that really!).

Whilst adding the various detail bits I decided that Plastic Weld was a little too strong, and being out of Mek-Pak, I dug this out;

Anyone remember Beatties?

Paul.